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Generalization of Acid‐Base Diagrams Based on the Unified pH‐Scale

So far, pH‐lgc (i) diagrams have been exclusively used for the theoretical description of acid‐base equilibria in aqueous solutions. Here, this approach is extended to include acid‐base equilibria in nonaqueous non‐hydrogen‐bond‐donor (non‐HBD) solvents following the acid‐base theory of Brønsted and...

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Autores principales: Kahlert, Heike, Leito, Ivo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7003793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31087622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201900388
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Sumario:So far, pH‐lgc (i) diagrams have been exclusively used for the theoretical description of acid‐base equilibria in aqueous solutions. Here, this approach is extended to include acid‐base equilibria in nonaqueous non‐hydrogen‐bond‐donor (non‐HBD) solvents following the acid‐base theory of Brønsted and Lowry, and using a unified pH scale (pH(abs) scale). This way, it is possible to estimate the approximate concentrations of all the species involved in acid‐base equilibria in a solution at any solution acidity [Formula: see text] , and vice versa. The diagrams are excellent to illustrate the differences in behavior of species involved in the solution equilibria in different solvents, for example, an aqueous solution of acetic acid is an acidic solution; however, the same concentration of acetic acid in DMSO has a [Formula: see text] value of about 10.6, that is, it is a basic solution with reference to the aqueous pH scale.